Prompts MG Siegler is right: Not everything done in computing is intended to be nefarious. At some point, you simply have to trust that someone — be it Apple, Google, or an app developer — isn’t out to screw you over. I decided a long time ago to assume that I am being treated fairly [...]
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March 2, 2012Three Magic Numbers
February 21, 2012Three Magic Numbers Brad Feld talks about how he came to the conclusion that there are only three numbers that matter and we should each figure out what ours are. His post has been sticking in my craw for a while now. He is right: we have an explosion of data and it is impossible [...]
Growing Up
February 15, 2012At 26 I thought I was ready to run a company. In the preceding few years I had done pretty much everything while putting the first building blocks of Infinity Softworks in place. I’d written much of the code, did support, managed the finances, sold and marketed the products, built relationships. And then in 2000 [...]
A Billion Dollars … One Dollar At A Time
February 10, 2012What’s In a Number? Good article from Bryce Roberts: This notion of a billion dollar company is steeped in silicon valley lore. … Quite often, the companies that state it as an early goal fail while those that end up being the wildest of successes, start out with a very different objective. He goes on [...]
Choose: Win the Battle or Win the War
February 7, 2012Yesterday a friend sent me a disturbing post from a California investor. His post talked about the kinds of people he likes to invest in. His example was a CTO of one of his companies, a guy who “works 20 hours a day as CTO, and rides motorcycles, mountain bikes, and numerous other high speed [...]
